Bring the software to your data — not your data to the cloud.
Curtilage builds private, on-premises software for organizations that can’t hand their
most sensitive data to a public cloud. Capable, modern tools — delivered as appliances
we ship, install, and support — that run inside your own network, where your data never
has to leave.
Shipped, installed & supported. Every Curtilage solution runs on a private deployment on your premises.
Hardware + software, delivered
Ongoing support & updates
Nothing in our cloud
The problem we solve
Modern capability shouldn’t cost you control of your data.
The best tools increasingly assume your data lives in someone else’s
cloud. For confidentiality-bound work, that trade is unacceptable. Curtilage closes the gap:
the same modern capability, kept entirely inside your walls.
Confidentiality is non-negotiable
The problem
The cloud and SaaS playbook is to send your data to someone else’s servers. For privileged, regulated, or classified work, that hands custody of your most sensitive material to vendors, subprocessors, and support staff you’ll never meet.
Our approach
Curtilage runs the software where the data already lives — inside your own network. Nothing is copied out to an outside cloud, so confidentiality is a fact of the architecture, not a promise in a policy.
Compliance & data residency
The problem
Mandates like privilege rules, GLBA, HIPAA, CMMC, ITAR, and data-residency laws expect you to know exactly where your data is and who can reach it — answers a multi-tenant cloud can’t always give you.
Our approach
When the system sits on your premises, the data stays under your physical control and your jurisdiction, with a complete audit trail of who did what. The hard compliance questions answer themselves.
Own your tools, predict your costs
The problem
Per-seat, per-use, and pay-as-you-go pricing punishes you for growing, while a vendor can change terms, raise prices, or sunset the product and strand you — with your data locked behind their account.
Our approach
We ship hardware and software together and support it for years at a fixed, predictable cost. No metering, no lock-in, no account anyone else can suspend — the tools are yours.
Resilience on your terms
The problem
A cloud outage, a suspended account, or a severed connection can cut you off from your own systems at the worst possible moment — on the vendor’s schedule, not yours.
Our approach
On-premises means it keeps working even when the public internet doesn’t. You control uptime, upgrades, and backups — including encrypted offsite copies in locations you choose.
Our solutions
Purpose-built products, one job at a time.
Each Curtilage solution does a specific job a confidentiality-bound
organization needs done — without sending your data to a public cloud or outside service.
Live
FileFerret
Law · Tax · CPA · RIA · defense
Private AI document search, shipped & supported.
Semantic search and cited answers across your firm’s documents, images, audio, and video — delivered as a turnkey appliance we ship, install, and support, with nothing ever leaving your network.
Point it at your file shares and it shows where personally identifiable information, privileged material, and Controlled Unclassified Information markings actually live — a clear report of what’s where, so you can prove you know your data and bring the exposed material under control.
The name is a promise. We picked a legal term for the most protected
private ground there is, because that is what every product is built to give your data.
cur·ti·lage
In law, the curtilage is the enclosed ground immediately around a home — the yard, the fence line, the private space the law treats as part of the home itself.
Where privacy is strongest
It is the area where you have the highest expectation of privacy — the ground the Fourth Amendment protects most closely. What happens inside it is nobody else’s business.
Your data’s curtilage
That is exactly what we build: a private perimeter around your data and the tools that work on it. The .zone is that protected ground — yours, under your control, with nothing crossing the fence.
Who builds it
A security pedigree, not a startup’s guesswork.
Curtilage comes out of decades spent where data handling is held to the
highest standard — not from a team learning confidentiality on the job.
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Trained to think like an attacker, so FileFerret is built to withstand one. Security is designed in from the first line of code — never bolted on after.
Public Trust clearance
Held a U.S. Public Trust clearance while working with the nation’s central bank — handling information under some of the strictest custody and accountability standards there are.
Fortune 100 & regulated industries
Decades consulting for Fortune 100 organizations and highly regulated sectors, where a single data-handling mistake carries real legal, financial, and reputational weight.
30+ years in the field
More than three decades building and securing systems where confidentiality, accountability, and compliance are not optional — they are the job.
Tell us about your organization and the data you need to protect. We’ll help you put
capable, modern tools to work on a private system we ship, install, and support — with
nothing ever leaving your network.